RUNNING OUT OF SPACE PLEASE HELP

[billkennedy32]

I have 2 exchange servers one has 2 gigs free the other has 50 gigs free.

Will moving mailboxes over to the other server , will this free up space.


I just moved a cuple thoruhg active dir exchange tasks but didnt seem to clear up any..

Any one ever do it this way and no if it works

Thanks
Bill

 

[SuZu01]

If you just deleted mailboxes from the first exchange server with only 2gig free space, it still keep normally if I'm not wront the mailboxe for 30 days, you can go in your exchange system manager to "purge" thoses mailboxes, so they will be deleted.

I hope this can help a little...

 

[Zelandakh]

DIRT settings will affect the mailbox retention. However even if you purge the mailboxes, you will not reclaim space. The only way to do this is with eseutil/d which needs 110% of priv.* as free space.

 

[somedea]

Check the size of the MDBDATA file (C:\Program Files\Exchsvr\MDBDATA)
If your backups are not done correctly, this file gets huge!

 

[58sniper]

It's not a file that gets huge. If you're not running backups, or you're running backups using an application that's no Exchange aware, or your backups are failing, the log files (the 5MB files called *.log) in the the mdbdata folder won't get flushed. This can eat up drive space really fast. Look in the mdbdata folder and see how things are.

Somedea - if your Exchange folder is on c:\, you've got to get it off there. You're asking for trouble!

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)